Rewriting the Preface: The Coming of Splendid Communism
Communists of the 21st Century
Sino-Futurism: A New Heaven and a New Earth
China Standard 2035: Creating a New Civilization with AI

Prologue_ The Return of Techno-China
Beginning of Spring, Between Two Olympics
Another sky outside the sky
Cutting-edge future technologies: space, bio, (green) earth, and digital.

Chapter 1.
Space China

Space Technology: From Revolution to Innovation
Long Journeys and Great Voyages: The Lunar Probe Hang'a and the Space Station Cheongung
Space Dreams and Space Networks: From Satellite Navigation to Weather Forecasting

Cosmo-sapiens, Bio-space
Space Day, Space Law, Space Plan 2050
New Space, New Business, Space Startups
Cosmo-sapiens: From Symbiotic Planet to Symbiotic Universe

Chapter 2.
Bio China

The forefront of biotechnology
The New Normal: From a Follower to a Leading Nation
The bio boom: from new drug development to genetic analysis and precision medicine.
New Bio, Beyond Overcoming Disease, to Artificial Life

artificial nature, artificial evolution
Artificial Mosquitoes: A Game Changer in Pandemic Prevention
Androids: Personalized Medicine and CRISPR Babies
Artificial Evolution: Designing Life Digitally

Chapter 3.
Green China

Sustainable Earth and Green Energy
Earth Tech, Energy Mix
Pre-Energy: Innovation in Power Plants
Renewable Energy: From Underground to Heaven
Emerging Energy: The Post-Solar Era

Green Governance, Green Technocracy
Beautiful China: From Clean Energy to Climate Engineering
Green Governance: Authoritarianism and Environmentalism
Green Technocracy: Building a Global Ecological Civilization

Chapter 4.
Digital China

The Century of Autonomy: The Strange New World of Digital Civilization
New Status, From Digital Finance to Live Commerce
The 2020 Digital Transformation and Startup Explosion
2035 Digital Economy, Digital Society, Digital Government
The battle for reserve currency hegemony: global digital currencies

Digital Silk Road, Silicon City Road
Silk, silver, silicone
Smart City Network: City Brain, Net City, Smart Green City
Digital City Road: The Birth of a New Empire

Epilogue_ Digital Touhou, the Age of Technology
Human Wave Tactics: A Sea of ​​Data
Techology: The New Dawn of Post-Labor, Digital Primitive Society
Digital East: Self-control without action, world-wide power

What does China think?
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“If you want to know the future of the world, look at China.

“If you want to know the future of China, read this book.”

"Korea has medical schools, China has engineering schools" - A resolve to confront South Korea's real crisis.

Three years is indeed too long.
ChatGPT Moment, a generative AI, appeared in November 2022.
In just three years, the transition to the AI ​​era has unfolded at a rapid pace, and AI services have become deeply embedded in our daily lives.
It is truly regrettable that during this precious time, South Korea's research and development (R&D) budget was drastically reduced.


Nvidia, a company that produces GPU and AI semiconductor chips, has risen to become the world's most valuable company in the most disruptive innovation in knowledge production since the printing press and the internet.
The actions of Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang (born 1963), were not ordinary.
On January 20, 2025, Jensen Huang did not attend President Trump's second inauguration.
While the heads of Big Tech companies like Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon lined up in the front row, he was actually heading across the Pacific to Beijing, not Washington.

Jensen Huang attended the Eastern Spring, Lunar New Year event and showed off his dance moves.
He took off his signature black leather jacket and changed into a simple traditional Chinese outfit.
He communicated in Chinese rather than English, visited a Huawei store, was full of exclamations, and even took pictures with Wang Xingxing, CEO of humanoid robot company Unitree.


Even for him, who had declared the "era of physical AI" at the beginning of the year, China was a market he could not give up.
No, China, the world's largest autonomous vehicle and robotics market, was a crucial location for Nvidia's future.
The 1.4 billion Chinese people were more important than a four-year term for the American president.
Furthermore, he was deeply concerned that the US blockade might increase China's technological independence.
Indeed, his ominous premonition was correct, as the Chinese generative AI service DeepSeek was launched on January 20th.

Most of the founders of today's Chinese tech companies are young people born after the reform and opening up in 1979.
Representative examples include Deepseak's Liang Wenfeng (born 1985) and Unitree's Wang Xingxing (born 1990), Temu's Huang Jing (born 1980), which has become a symbol of low-price shopping, ByteDance's Zhang Yiming (born 1983), which developed TikToc, ByteDance's Wang Tao (born 1980), the world's leading drone company DJI, and AI semiconductor startup Cambricon's Chen Tianshi (born 1985).
These are the very people who symbolize the “flashy communists” who dominate the 21st century.


This new generation of neo-communists is accustomed to the US-led global standards, but they do not follow them unilaterally.
On the contrary, they try to pursue, overtake, and transcend.
His eyes are blazing with patriotism and the determination to surpass America, and he is also steadfast in his devotion to communist ideology and ideals.
In China, 6 million science and engineering talents enter society every year.
If there are only 0.01 percent of '21st century communists', that's 600 people a year, and 6,000 people in 10 years.


This 3040 generation is leading the innovation of Techno-China, and the 1020 generation born in the 21st century is lining up to visit Liang Wenfeng's alma mater (Zhejiang University).
It ignited the spirit of 'entrepreneurial communism'.
The ideal communist human model has transformed from a revolutionary who overthrows the old order to an entrepreneur who creates a new order.
In fact, it is said that the number of AI startups that have emerged in mainland China has exceeded 4,000.
It is full of enthusiasm and passion, reminiscent of the United States in the 1960s when the Apollo space project was successful, or Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble in the 1990s.


Yet, today, South Korea's 'perception of China' is stuck solely in the Cold War perception of the past, having deviated from the flow of world history.
It even flows into an anachronistic regression of anti-China/anti-China sentiment.
They have neither the vision nor the will to properly grasp China, a country of 1.4 billion people running at full speed toward the path of science and technology.


Now, we must establish new principles while keeping an eye on the 'big cycle' of the 'changing world order'.
The prerequisite for that great change in thinking is to know it properly.
Only by accurately assessing China's present and adopting a realistic approach that boldly envisions the future can South Korea prepare for the next 30 years.
Rather than being forced into a corner where they have to choose between the US and China, we must elevate ourselves to a leading nation that can provide a third option to the 100 or so middle-ground countries.
We must pay attention to the future generations of Asia, who are always ready to welcome Korea if it can play that role.


I sincerely hope that this book can contribute, however small, to preparing for the next 30 years of the Republic of Korea and devising a grand strategy for the next century.
This is the reason why we are reviving and re-publishing 'Techno-China' after a three-year hiatus.

Cutting-edge future technologies - space, bio, green earth, digital, and AI
Where does China stand and where is it going?

1.
In the space industry, including lunar and Mars exploration, space station construction, and satellite navigation, China is already showing off its outstanding capabilities by catching up to the United States.


2016 was a year that could be likened to the 21st century's 'Sputnik Shock'.
China has launched the world's first quantum science satellite equipped with quantum communication technology, the ultimate communication system.
Additionally, on January 3, 2019, it became the first country to land on the far side of the moon, marking the beginning of its own lunar exploration, making it the only country to have reached the moon twice in the 21st century (the first landing was in 2013).
But the moon is not the final destination.
It is merely a stopover on the way to further and deeper space.
In fact, the goal of exploring Mars was achieved in 2021, and the goal of exploring Jupiter is 2029.


In November 2022, construction of an independent space station was completed.
When the International Space Station, a joint venture of 16 countries, reaches the end of its lifespan in 2030, China will take the lead in space research.
This is the beginning of the so-called Chinese space station 'Tiangong' project.
Using Tiangong as a springboard, a project is also underway to build humanity's first manned lunar base by 2030, and a research and development base to conduct permanent space research on the moon by 2049.

Meanwhile, China has developed its own navigation system, Beidou, as a countermeasure to the US GPS.
Since the launch of its first satellite in 2000, a total of 55 satellites have been launched, and as of 2025, 35 satellites are in operation, surpassing GPS in both quantity and quality.
Furthermore, by closely integrating the Beidou system with the Belt and Road Initiative (already providing services to over 30 countries), we have established the infrastructure to compete fully with the United States in space. We are creating another global standard to replace GPS.


As the space market heats up, space startups are also emerging explosively.
Six companies in particular shine.
LinkSpace, GalaxySpace, LandSpace, i-Space, GalacticEnergy, and Spacety.
These companies, which appeared like comets, achieved remarkable achievements comparable to those of American space companies in just 4 to 5 years since their establishment.
Ultimately, their rocket and satellite technologies are likely to be integrated into China's massive space internet project, Guowang (國網).
It is a project to build a space internet network that connects the entire Earth by launching about 13,000 communication satellites into low Earth orbit, like SpaceX's Starlink.
It is a mega project of the Central Plains that connects the earth and the sky, and the Earth and the universe.

2.
China is also making rapid progress in biotechnology, including new drug development, genetic analysis, precision medicine, personalized medicine, and artificial life.


One area where China has yet to catch up with the United States is life sciences and clinical medicine, collectively known as "bio."
In other words, if China surpasses the United States in the field of biotechnology, it will establish itself as a leading country in science and technology in the 21st century.
In fact, China is making bold investments in biotechnology.
The field of biopharmaceuticals is particularly notable.
We are focusing on developing new drugs in the fields of vaccines, antibodies, and cell therapy.
This is also a result of the 'National Science and Technology Major Specialized Project' that the Chinese government has been promoting since 2006 to focus on fostering core technologies.
Furthermore, notable research achievements are being produced one after another thanks to the comprehensive and continuous support at the national level, such as the 'National Stem Cell Research Guidance Coordination Committee' established in 2010 and the 'National Precision Medicine Strategy Expert Committee' established in 2015.


If the United States ushered in a new millennium with the Human Genome Project, China opened a new door to "personalized medicine" in 2018 with the world's largest genome project.
The goal was to complete a genome map by analyzing the genetic base sequences of 100,000 Chinese people to identify the genetic basis of diseases suffered by the Chinese people (this genome map was released to the world in 2022).
Beijing Genome Institute (BGI), a leading company in this field, has already emerged as the world's largest genetics research institute.
In particular, China has already surpassed the United States in research on CRISPR gene-edited crops and transgenic plants, and in fact, about half of the clinical trials of gene-editing technology worldwide are being conducted in China.


3.
We are also making every effort to develop the energy industry and climate engineering for a sustainable Earth, including solar energy, electric vehicles, batteries, renewable energy, and artificial rain.


China is currently the world's largest carbon emitter and also a world leader in decarbonization technology.
Since the Communist Party Charter in 2012 stipulated the construction of an ecological civilization, China has been making massive investments in innovative industries, also known as earth tech, green tech, and climate tech.
And with that roadmap, they present '3060'.
Since reducing carbon emissions immediately is a realistically unachievable goal, the goal is to transition to carbon reduction starting in 2030 and achieve a decarbonized ecological civilization by 2060.

China is already a leader in green/clean energy.
Wind power is the world's largest, accounting for 67 percent of global production (although the United States is second, its power generation is only one-tenth that of China).
China enjoys an overwhelming advantage in solar power generation.
China's technological innovation has been the most crucial factor in reducing the cost of solar power generation by more than 80 percent over the past decade.


The pace of transition to green mobility is also accelerating.
Hydrogen and electric vehicles are national industries in China.
If the United States led the gasoline-engine-automobile era in the 20th century, China is leading the electric-battery-autonomous-vehicle era in the 21st century.
As the world's largest producer and consumer of electric vehicles, it is a leading country that does not allow other countries to compete in manufacturing and sales.
China's lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing capacity accounts for nearly three-quarters of the world's total.
Ninety percent of the world's electric buses operate in China, and the world's fastest and longest high-speed rail network also links cities across China, creating an energy-efficient system.


We are also pioneering the fields of geoengineering and climate engineering.
We encourage the development of carbon capture technology that re-inserts atmospheric carbon deep into the Earth, monitors Earth's ecological changes in real time with satellites, and regulates Earth's temperature by installing space reflectors between the Earth and the Sun.
Cloud-seeding experiments are also actively underway, and climate engineering is also being applied to countermeasures against the melting of glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau.
This can be said to be humanity's desperate struggle to use technology to avoid climate disaster.

So now China wants to make its green governance a global model.
It is a rebranding marketing campaign to promote Green China, not Red China.
The Chinese model is the most appropriate governance model for the era of climate disaster, and it offers a full-package development model that will enable a leap forward to an ecological civilization without having to go through a fossil fuel-based industrial civilization.

4.
China is also leading the world in digital/AI industries, which are creating another virtual world, including autonomous drones, humanoid robots, smart cars, smart cities, digital finance, and digital governance.

In the 2010s, China skipped the computer and laptop phase and went straight to widespread smartphone adoption, leading to a booming mobile economy.
The massive population of 1.4 billion has driven explosive evolution by connecting with the smart-mobile economy, and the COVID-19 pandemic has become the catalyst for this hyper-accelerated digital transformation.


2021 can be called the first year of 'Digital China'.
The Chinese government has set long-term goals for the next 15 years, through 2035.
The plan is to accelerate digitalization centered on seven key areas, including cloud, big data, and AI, to complete Digital China by 2035.
There are three main directions.
Digital economy, digital society, digital government.
This encompasses strengthening independent research and development (R&D) in basic fields, digital transformation (DX) of existing industries, digitalization of public services such as education and healthcare, digitalization of transportation and logistics such as autonomous taxis and drones, and smart administration.

For example, Baidu, which developed the autonomous driving system Apollo, established a joint venture with Geely Automobile in January 2021 to participate in the development of smart cars.
A paid autonomous taxi service began operating on some roads in downtown Beijing in November 2021, with the goal of operating in 100 cities nationwide by 2030.
In addition to Baidu, many companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, and Xiaomi, are engaged in fierce development competition.
As of 2025, China's autonomous robotaxi service is considered the most advanced in the world.
The market size is growing rapidly thanks to strong support from the Chinese government and competition from tech companies.


This is China's unique public-private partnership method, where the government sets social problems, eases regulations, creates markets through private participation, and solves them.
This is also evident in the construction of smart cities.
Examples include the City Brain experiment between Hangzhou and Alibaba, Tencent's Net City, a leading project in Shenzhen, and Xiong'an New Area, a future new city being built to be the world's best smart and green city.

China, aiming to become the information empire of the 21st century, is creating the so-called 'digital silk road'.
Already, China's digital communications network is tightly intertwining the globe, encompassing five oceans and six continents.
Huawei, a leader in 5G and 6G, supplies digital devices to more than 170 countries around the world.
More than 40 percent of the world's CCTVs are provided by China's Hikvision and Dahua.
The Hengtong Group, which lays intercontinental submarine fiber optic cables, is responsible for 15 percent of the world's information network.
China's Beidou satellite navigation system has long surpassed the US's GPS, connecting 165 capitals around the world.


In other words, this digital neural network, which stretches from deep space to the deep sea, is all part of the digital Silk Road that China is pursuing.
Therefore, the Belt and Road Initiative is not a project that stops at building traditional infrastructure of industrial civilization, such as highways and high-speed railways.
It is a package that combines offline and online, including digital infrastructure.
Therefore, China's digital Belt and Road Initiative is also a path to the birth of a new empire.
By disseminating smart infrastructure and providing smart cities, we will be able to exercise future power intelligently without resorting to force or military intervention.
It is about becoming a deterritorialized, futuristic empire that controls a network with eyes and ears across the globe.